Find a Certified GMB TrainerNear You

If you want to drastically improve what your body can do, there is no more direct or efficient route than working with a professional trainer.

Unlike a lot of groups out there, we’re extremely selective about the people we certify to teach GMB, so you can be confident that the GMB Trainers listed below have the skills and experience to guide your training for better health and performance.

Asia

Ammar Rajab

Ammar’s background is in martial arts, gymnastics, calisthenics, barbell, and kettlebell strength training. He has always been obsessed with movement and training, and loves teaching and sharing his knowledge. He offers adults and kids classes and strives to keep his training practical and simple for his clients.

Azimah Azmi

Azimah is a trainer who loves challenges. She has competed in bodybuilding, powerlifting, and BJJ events, and kicked some ass! When it comes to training, she’s in love with mindful movement, and how important physical autonomy is across different kinds areas of fitness. Azimah aims to continue to kick ass, monkeying around on the mats, and is always excited to have people join her!

Moe Ng

Moe started performing in breakdance at the age of 15. He has competed in basketball, volleyball, swimming, track & field, and bodybuilding, all while teaching breakdance. Moe is leading the Pure Fitness team to integrate the philosophy and movement principles of GMB into their fitness culture.

Muhammed Ismail

Muhammed is an infantry officer in the Singapore Armed Forces. Prior to joining the Fitness Industry 12 year ago, he was in the security industry doing Close Cover Protection for celebrities and VIPs, event control and security consultation. As a fitness enthusiast during school days, Muhammed participated in various sports such as soccer, softball, track & field and martial arts. He’s also a competitive bodybuilder and has won a few national titles, representing Singapore in overseas competition. And winning the coveted title of Mr. Singapore in 2011. Over the course of a decade in the fitness industry he has worked with various clients with different goals. Through his practice of bodybuilding and proper nutrition, he has managed to impart his knowledge and help to enhance many of his clients lifestyles. In the last 4 years, he has been actively involve in doing Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) all over the globe. Recently he has just came back from Canada where he qualified to race at the OCR World Championships. With this new found passion, he also set up a fitness community known as the Lion City Spartans. Currently they have 2000 members on their Facebook page and actively racing with up to 200 over members at some big OCR events such Spartan Race and Viper Challenge.

Australia

Andy Hrelja

Andy has a passion for learning about how to make the human body better through exercise and nutrition. He wants to use what he learns to help others. He’s an avid martial artist currently studying Hapkido, BJJ, and Tae Kwon Do. Andy also has experience with weight lifting, kettlebells, DVRT (sandbags). His quest for strength and flexibility drew him to GMB where the programs and overall philosophy resonated with his own beliefs.

Conor O’Shea

Conor is a personal trainer, Precision Nutrition coach, and Yoga teacher from Ireland, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches individuals and small groups and follows a sustainable, habit-based approach with clients. He loves traveling and all things movement related.

David D’Amore

David owns a gym in Cairns, Shoshin Movement, and runs classes that incorporate a multi-disciplinary approach to developing strength and skills, increasing mobility and incorporating play.
His practice resonates with the GMB approach to movement in that he wants to help people move, feel and perform better in life and sees value in holistic, sustainable practices.

Helen Ilich

Helen’s founding movement discipline is gymnastics, which continues to be an inspiration. She is a Level 2 Animal Flow® Instructor and dedicated practitioner, Stretch Therapy™ Teacher and Tumbling Coach. Helen enjoys training in body-weight exercise and quadruped locomotion for the intense challenge, and opportunity for fluidity and freedom that these skill-based movements present to the mind and body. For Helen, movement is a life adventure and GMB is integral to her personal and professional journey.

Junior Vassiliou, Lead GMB Trainer

Junior heads up GMB Australia from his gym, Progressive Strength, in Brisbane. In addition to teaching regular GMB classes on-site, he organizes workshops and seminars around Australia and assists with the curriculum for GMB group classes.

Michael Griffiths

Michael started training to help with farm life. That blossomed into helping others with their fitness goals. He is the co-owner of Xcel Fitness Devonport. A group fitness orientated gym that opened in 1999. For Michael, training should be fun and enhance the things you like to do. The GMB approach has been a part of a natural educational evolution that has highlighted a mindful approach to movement and life.

Paul Bourke

Paul Bourke is a Melbourne based theatre practitioner and fitness coach interested in movement practises which are sustainable, fun and generate an energetic, mobile, strong and capable human body. Paul has explored numerous movement practices and since coming across the GMB method it has steadily become a strong foundational pillar in Paul’s own movement practice and in his passion for helping people take the steps towards exploring their movement potential and improving their quality of life.

Piers Kwan

Piers is a teacher by trade, and takes great pleasure in helping the community at QLD Kettlebells in East Brisbane. Piers places a high value on technical proficiency and long-term outcomes, and runs a unique group training class that melds these key values with a chance for people to connect and enjoy each other’s company.

Europe

Ariel Ron

Ariel comes to GMB with a background in body building/powerlifting. He is a level 2 Animal Flow instructor; a level 2 certified Movnat Trainer; and is an FRCms and FRAs mobility and assessment specialist. Ariel’s main focus is on teaching the fundamental basics of strength, flexibility and motor control, emphasizing technique and quality of movement. He is driven by the desire to see people thrive, so that they feel empowered and capable in their own bodies.

Arleen Pietrzak

Arleen loves to help people feel comfortable and create positive change in their body. She believes you can become stronger, more flexible, and gain better control of your body as you age. This belief is the driving force behind her passion in personal training. Arleen became a certified GMB trainer the year she turned 50. She continues to learn and grow as she acquires new skills in her movement practice. Her bodyweight training programs focus on balance, quality of movement, control, and mindfulness to help you do the things that are meaningful to you.

Edith Maria, Lead GMB Trainer

Edith Maria currently works as a movement teacher. She’s a certified Yoga and Pilates instructor, Rhythmical Gymnastics instructor, and she recently graduated as a movement Pedagogue/Therapist from a well-known movement institute (Gotvedinstituttet) in Copenhagen. She loves to explore and challenge her own body’s potential, which is essential to being able to convey bodily experiences to her clients.

Gayle Pocock, Lead GMB Trainer

Gayle is passionate about teaching people how to move better while getting stronger, and she loves finding that spark in everybody when they achieve things they never thought possible. She believes that it’s essential to play. Her way of teaching ensures that you’ll reconnect with your body and mind to make the best progress for everything you want to achieve in life. Gayle is the head of GMB UK.

Graham Keenan

Graham is a yoga teacher, gymnastics and movement coach. With 17 years experience working in the health and fitness industry Graham has a deep understanding of movement patterns. He combines knowledge of gymnastics style training with yoga to use bodyweight movements for an overall holistic approach to exercise that includes breath-work, rehabilitation, flexibility and mindful movement practice. Graham specializes in running popular yoga classes, movement events, workshops and gymnastic rings courses within his yoga studio.

Henrik Berglin

Henrik has a training background in different martial arts and weightlifting (Certified Eleiko Strength Coach Level 3) and an educational background in Health Education and Lean Production. He loves seeing people progress in their training, while exploring and expanding their movement capabilities to create a deeper understanding of how their bodies can move to solve the “movement puzzle” necessary to progress.

Maarten Pijls

Maarten played a lot of sports (primarily basketball) in his teens/twenties/thirties and was always interested in the human body. He eventually became a physical therapist. A couple of years ago he found strength training for skill, not just for the looks. That was a big eye opener and now he is constantly learning, training, and teaching how people can get more control over their bodies so they can enjoy life even more!

Nathan Featherstone

Growing up, Nathan had participated in various sports. In his late teens he started competing in MMA, BJJ, as well as Dog Brother Martial Arts. After trying a wide range of training types, his journey led him to GMB and he fell in love with movement training. It is GMB that gave him the tools to use his body and build strength. His goal as a personal trainer is to help others move better and be more comfortable in their own bodies.

Neil McTeggart

With over 20 years of gym experience and 15 years coaching experience, this ‘wanna be Ninja’ from Ireland has more tools than a top end Swiss Army knife. Neil is currently on a gymrat-to-gymnast journey and likes to complement his GMB training with everything from BJJ and gymnastics to parkour and power lifts.

Rob Westra

Rob understands how the body moves and he is encouraging and supportive in how he communicates this knowledge to his clients. It’s not long before you notice these amazing changes in movement and strength. He is an honest and caring trainer and he gets to know his clients, tailoring their programs to help build a solid foundation. Rob genuinely loves what he does and this shines through–it’s fun and infectious.

Robert Bijl

Pursuing traditional “fitness” for years left Robert feeling stiff and injured. He began practicing calisthenics, yoga, BJJ, and climbing. This gave him a whole new perspective on the human body and he began a new journey. To discover how to move with the body, instead of against it. Robert hopes he can help do the same for you!

Sara Lessmann

Sara is a London-based fitness and movement coach with a background in CrossFit and theatre performance. Her company, Stage Monkey seeks to combine physical autonomy with theatre practice while helping actors and non-actors tap into their creativity through skill-building, mindful movement, and play.

Sonny Korte

Sonny is a multi and ultra athlete, who understands the importance of having fun. He knows how to enjoy the precious time that is required to enable the body to do what you love, for many hours at a time. He wants to use what he learns to help others, whether it is to be able to focus on work for many hours, or to push the body for longer than ever before.

Thomas Nitschke

Thomas is a personal trainer with a background in martial arts. His passion is bodyweight training, mobility, and fascial fitness. He teaches movement to help body and mind cope with the requirements of everyday life. He holistically combines strength, flexibility, sensorimotor, and connective tissue training for a well-rounded approach.

Verity Bradford

Verity is a GMB Trainer and Crossfit Gymnastics Advanced Instructor. She combines a creative approach to movement with traditional strength and conditioning. Her main focus is on developing body awareness and she likes to see how far something can be varied and progressed. She works as a member of the GMB support team, coaching clients through our programs.

Vincent Lubrez

Vincent works currently as a personal trainer. With very little physical activity as a child, he started his journey of training as an adult, starting with BJJ, and moving on with bodyweight training, weight lifting and lately circus arts. After several years of training, he left his job as an engineer and got certified as a personal trainer. His goal is to help people who were not particularly athletic to know their body, and discover what they can achieve through training.

North America

A. Paul Dawdy

Paul is a Personal Trainer in London, Ontario who coaches Martial Arts classes and offers private nutritional guidance. His journey started early in martial arts and included dance exploration and live theatre. He enjoys kettlebells, Olympic Lifting, and interpretive dance. His passion is to help others to become more of who they really are. His motto is ‘No pain is no pain.’

Brooks Meadows

Memphis-born coach, traveler, strategist, and dreamer in no particular order. I love engaging my community through movement, strength, and the pursuit of play. I’m working to uplift the industry and help shift consciousness forward through self-discipline and exuberant living. I’m here to learn, live, and love what I do.

Caleb Chiu

As someone who grew up uncoordinated and, frankly, a bit of a wimp, Caleb’s hobbies now include choking people out in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and riding large waves in the Pacific Ocean. He is passionate about becoming a better coach and furthering his knowledge about the human body.

Christopher Gaines

In 2005, Chris earned his degree in Human Biology from Stanford University. Since then, he’s worked to earn his NSCA-CSCS, Titleist Performance, and SFG Level II kettlebell coaching credentials. Chris has been strongly influenced by his unique experiences in the field of performance, including conducting performance testing for USA Rugby, attending Nike SPARQ Performance Summits, and finally as a former Nike Master Trainer. He’s enjoying exploring newfound skills and abilities with bodyweight training!

Chris McMahon, Lead GMB Trainer

Chris is a NSCF-CPT based out of New Jersey. He is a big fan of movement and playing. Yes, “working out” is very important too, but it should be fun. He can be found climbing, balancing on his hands, or crawling around most days.

Chris Tighe

Chris started his fitness journey as an unathletic young adult and has experimented with various modalities such as CrossFit, kettlebells, and just lifting weights. While he still enjoys picking up heavy things here and there, he has discovered a true passion for hand balancing, locomotion, and bodyweight flow. Chris has also had a dedicated meditation and Qigong practice for many years that he finds invaluable in helping to develop a mindful movement practice and exploring the connection between body and mind. He loves the feeling of getting out of his own way and letting his body move the way it wants. Chris thoroughly enjoys sharing that freedom of movement and expression with others.

Chris Turner

Growing up, Chris was not involved in sports and was not athletic at all. But later in adulthood he came to practice Boxing, Muay Thai, and Yoga. He loves exploring new patterns of movement and is constantly searching for ways to improve his physical practice. He wants to show people that it’s never too late to begin your own journey to improvement.

Colleen Erin Cole

Colleen’s movement mission is to always train and coach with positivity, variety, and joy. She has a background in Classical Chinese medicine, yoga, dance, nutrition, and interpersonal communication and psychology. She absolutely loves what she does and brings a diverse skill set to her patients and clients to ensure their unique health and wellness needs are met. Colleen is the owner, acupuncturist, and personal trainer of The Balance Point Acupuncture & Wellness in Chapel Hill.

Dan Clayton

Dan is a movement coach in Victoria, BC. His natural curiosity and love of movement has led him to study many forms of physical practice. From yoga to martial arts, weightlifting and circus arts, Dan’s pursuit of self exploration and pushing the body’s limits is what really brings him alive and what he is most excited to share with others.

Daniel Spencer

Daniel was one of the original GMB clients and the first graduate of the rigorous GMB Trainer Apprenticeship. He loves teaching workshops around the country and has a passion for practicing and teaching handstands and other types of mindful movement. His goal is to teach people how they can move better today than they did yesterday and have great time doing it.

Danielle Jones

Danielle has been a NYS Licensed Massage Therapist for over 10 years and a personal trainer over 5 years. She owns a training studio called Viking Fitness in the Thousand Islands where she shares her love of functional and mindful movement with the river community. When she’s not in the studio, you can find her on the St. Lawrence River kayaking and being a genuine river rat. Danielle focuses on injury prevention and rehabilitation and firmly believes that exercise should be a fun and enlightening experience.

Dwayne Desloges

Dwayne is certified as a Focused Flexibility Specialist, MovNat Level 2 Trainer, Sports and Exercise Nutritional coach with Precision Nutrition, and YMCA PT. Through his experience as a martial artist, avid rock climber, and his passion for all forms of movement, Dwayne helps his clients become strong and mobile through movement and play. Real world application of skill and strength are his main focus as a teacher.

Eduardo Orihuela

Eduardo is a personal trainer based in Chicago. Growing up, he experienced various styles of training including wrestling. Later he began wrestling at the collegiate level. Eduardo’s mission is to help people reach optimal health and fitness levels to reflect a strong lifestyle. Always looking for a challenge, he now participates in indoor rock climbing and obstacle course racing.

Gabriel Colby

Gabriel Colby is professional trombonist in Pittsburgh. He is busy touring and performing a wide range of music from symphonic to chamber to jazz/funk. He has three passions in life; music, fitness and good cup of cold brew. Gabriel came upon GMB and fell in love with the challenge, simplicity, and efficiency of the program. Gabriel wants to continue the pursuit of mastering the method and share it with others.

Pittsburgh, PA, United States gabrielcolby@gmail.com 8607486547@Gabrielcolby

Garrett Naze

Garrett is a physical therapist and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at High Point University. He works full-time with folks with pain conditions in the department’s Pro Bono Clinic. His approach and interests incorporate health and wellness measures, health behavior skills training, and motivational strategies to address multiple body systems to promote movement and improve mindsets about the pain experience.

Garrett Seibel

Garrett is an explorer at heart and his inherent love of movement began to evolve in 2004 when he discovered kettlebells and bodyweight strength training. Garrett believes that reconnecting to the natural world is crucial to truly thriving on this planet. He is passionate about helping others reclaim their personal sovereignty through developing higher levels of self-awareness and physical autonomy.

Greg Woods

Greg Woods is manager and a coach at Agatsu NC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His mission is to provide the most accessible, thorough, balanced, and efficient strength and movement training around. Mindset is huge for Greg, and if you’re sincere in your training goals you’ll be hard pressed to find a better ally than he. Beyond training, Greg also reads a ton, writes, cooks, and loves to travel.

Iyan Shuman

Iyan started his martial arts journey in high school with BJJ. And earned a black belt in Shotokan and played with Judo and JKD as well as getting involved in IU’s Breakdancing and Parkour Clubs while in college. He is currently an instructor in the Thai boxing association and still growing in his martial arts practice. Iyan love movement and physical exploration. Ultimately wants to help people pursue whatever gets them excited to be up and moving.

Jake Michael

Jake believes that increased body awareness and a strong understanding of the human body is essential in learning how to move freely and more efficiently. His creative program design focuses not only on the individuals specific needs, but also on the manner in which the information is presented. Jake spends his free time enjoying the company of family and friends as well as his 100-lb Rhodesian Ridgeback “Phinney”. He is one of the owners of Seattle Pilates Collective.

Jason Tillsley

Jason grew up playing and competing in a variety of sports such as hockey, baseball, and judo. He has always had an affinity for lifting weights and strength training in general. He learned that strength comes from the inside out, and it’s that kind of mindset he loves to share with others who are in the pursuit of becoming better movers.

Jeannie Landis

In addition to being a GMB Trainer, Jeannie is a Muscle Activation Techniques Specialist™, a Life Coach, and a Kitchen Ninja. With her love for movement and commitment to learning, Jeannie brings years of knowledge and experience and understands how important physical autonomy is in allowing people to excel. She is committed to helping people build happier, healthier lives.

Jeff Clark

Jeff’s personal interest in health, nutrition, and fitness led him to get a degree in Health and Human Performance. He has competed in and coached Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts. The perseverance he learned in those arts makes him a better coach. Jeff is dedicated to helping people move with safety and control. He believes that our bodies are capable of so much more than what we ask of them and he loves helping people discover the joy of movement that comes with this realization.

Jenn Pilotti

Jenn has been a personal trainer since 2001, and she owns a personal training studio in Carmel, CA. When she isn’t helping people realize their physical potential, she can be found playing outside, working on her handstands, or reading. She believes practice makes progress, and cares deeply about helping people connect to exercise in a mindful, playful way.

JJ Thomas

JJ is a physical therapist in private practice. As a physical therapist, she applies movement principles to the body as a whole. It is this approach that led her to GMB. JJ finds that integrating the GMB philosophy into patients’ treatments helps recovery. As a GMB Trainer, she teaches classes that use these principles. This builds a foundation that fosters physical autonomy and prevents injuries in the first place.

Jonathan Magno

Jon started out in martial arts and traversed his way through different fitness and active mediums until he found Movement and the search for Physical Autonomy with GMB. Human Performance, adaptability, and helping people find their passions is what drives him to continue doing what he does!

Julianne Millar

Julianne lives in Southern NJ and come from a background of traditional weightlifting, HIIT, running, etc. She is passionate about training BJJ. Julianne discovered GMB about two years ago and it completely restructured the way she approached her training. Julianne still enjoys the occasional high-intensity work, but has learned to balance it with mindful, playful movement. GMB has melded perfectly with her BJJ training. One of her big goals is to improve her handstand!

Katie Kilway

Katie loves to be active and move more than anything else. Initially drawn to movement and fitness through participation on sports teams as a child, she has progressed from team sports, to running obstacle course races and long distance, to aerial dance and acrobatics: training, performing, and teaching. Katie firmly believes that fitness should be mindful, sustainable, and most of all, fun!

Khatchig Chouljian

Khatchig is a certified personal trainer, nutritionist, and health coach workout out of Glendale Ca. He has a private studio where he teaches fundamental bodyweight strength and flexibility exercises. He provides safe and effective workout plans to help his clients systematically make progress towards their goals. Hit him up if you’re in the LA area and need some help with your health and fitness goals.

Leon Aldrich

Leon has enjoyed a life full of physical challenges, from playing baseball to MMA and CrossFit. He has been involved with coaching and training for the past 15+ years, since earning his B.S. in Kinesiology. He has owned and operated his gym, Tacoma Strength, for the past 6 years. Becoming a GMB trainer was part of the next evolution in the way Leon thinks about training, moving, and being a better human being.

Luke Andresen

Luke enjoys nothing more than being a professional trainer. As a former strength & conditioning trainer of US Special Forces, he is certified in SFG Level I Kettlebell, FMS Level II Correctives, as a GMB Trainer, and is currently in training for his 200 hour RYT (Yoga). He emphasizes a holistic, low-ego approach to fitness, and having as much fun as possible during the process of getting stronger.

Naushad Godrej

Naushad is a holistic trainer, health nut, and outdoor adventurer who believes you should find fun with any physical activity you choose to do. He grew up playing soccer and went through the wringer with injuries leading to chronic pain in his late teens. Through his journey with recovery, he became passionate about helping others build resilience in their bodies and moving better with less pain.

Patrick Brunetti

Patrick has been teaching and training for the past 25 years. As an instructor of fitness classes teaching boxing, kickboxing, boot camp, Tabata, progressive calisthenics, and body awareness, his goal is to continue to learn and teach to bring about dynamic and effective training to his clientele.

Rich O’Connor

Rich was born to move – from the playground, when he thought jumping off the top of the slide was a better option than sliding down; to today, as he trains for the next Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competition. His entire professional career has been focused on working with athletes, teachers and clients of all levels to refine their movement and increase their natural mind-to-body connection.

Rose Calucchia, Lead GMB Trainer

Apart from being a Personal Trainer, Rose has been involved in Circus Arts since 2004, mostly focusing on acrobatics, handstands and trapeze. She co-owns The Radical Movement Factory, a circus training facility in Santa Cruz, CA. Rose loves watching her students and clients discover their strength and confidence through handstands and body weight training.

Ryan Trificana

Ryan has been a student and practicioner of many different physical practices his entire life from competitive sports, CrossFit, martial arts, fitness, gymnastics, yoga, and running. Ryan’s current passion and interest is exploring the limitless world that comes with a movement perspective. He believes that by moving outside the perception of what fitness is, we can take a wholistic, and often more fun and playful, approach to developing strong, mobile, and pain free bodies.

Sarah Reppert

Sarah is driven by her passion for movement. With an athletic background in competitive sports, she understands the need for physical autonomy and mindful movement. She is a certified personal trainer, chi running specialist, and TRX certified. Sarah co-owns a HIIT fitness studio in Montclair, NJ that specializes in training clients in strength, mobility/flexibility, and endurance.

Saul Cervantes

I grew up a soccer player and a skateboarder, and was always trying something new. I got into fitness after suffering from an injury, wanting to learn how to heal myself. I took this passion to a new level by getting certified as a Personal Trainer, and it became my career. After years of training and trying various methods, I found my passion in bodyweight training and movement. My favorite pastimes are balancing on my hands and learning different ways to move my body like my favorite superhero – Spiderman! When I’m not training, you can find me at comic-conventions portraying the famous web-slinger.

Simeon Hoover

Simeon was very active at an early age, learning a variety of indoor and outdoor sports. This has laid the foundation and passion for movement that Simeon still carries with him today. He has spent a lifetime learning how things work as an artisan builder. Fueling a certain need to digest every detail in a task, and to gain a deep understanding of things. Simeon imparts his knowledge of physical movement much in the same way. To help his clients discover their own learning patterns, abilities, and guide them into creating the autonomy they want, to live the life they deserve.

Stacey Pardini

Stacey is a certified GMB Focused Flexibility Specialist and GMB Trainer. Stacey likes playing, mindful movement, bodyweight skills, mobility, and being able to do whatever random adventurous thing she desires. She loves helping people move beyond limitations to rediscover the fun and joy of physical activity. She trains for fun and function.

Stephen Stern

As a trainer in his mid-60s, Stephen brings vast experience and knowledge with regard to fitness and health. Rather than ‘working out,’ his emphasis is to explore mindful movement in ways that are safe, fun, and sustainable. He knows that a person of any age can get stronger, improve flexibility, and move with greater ease and agility. Professionally, for over 30 years, he has provided chiropractic care.

Trevor Hash

Trevor’s passion is teaching movement to those who genuinely want to improve. He believes movement is a necessary aspect of the human experience, so why not have a little fun with it? His training philosophy involves meeting every individual where they currently are, and progressing them towards movement goals by using any modality necessary; from corrective exercise to structured play. He practices gymnastics, Jiu-Jitsu, dance, capoeira, powerlifting, and more.

Troy Obrero

Troy is a father of two and the youngest of eight. He is a semi-retired serial entrepreneur, a former powerlifting champion, an average cook, a published poet. He’s the owner of dozens of musical instruments, and the master of none. Convinced he should have been a dancer or surfer, but is assertive that he wanes in talent, with regard to either. Teaching GMB, he hopes to help people get to know their ever-changing selves. And treat themselves with gentleness.

GMB Trainers Surpass Industry Standard

Most fitness systems hand out certifications like candy. All you need is a free weekend and a couple thousand dollars, and you too can be a fitness expert – Wow!

We decided not to go down that path. Instead, we set out to improve on the certification process in the most fundamental way by replacing the “certification seminar” with a minimum of three months of apprenticeship. It’s a much more time-consuming process for us and for our trainer candidates, but the result is that we can recommend the individuals on this page with pride.